COVID-19 Event Cancellation Claims Litigation Checklist

Summary

This COVID-19 Event Cancellation Claims Litigation Checklist provides guidance on instituting and defending a civil action for event cancellation insurance coverage arising out of COVID-19. The checklist is jurisdiction-neutral and does not center on a specific industry from which an event cancellation claim may arise. While the procedures for pleading causes of action and defenses are assumed to be generic and applicable to all states, practitioners should check specific jurisdictional, pleading, and procedural requirements of the jurisdiction in which the action will be filed and defended. Because some lawsuits will be prosecuted and defended in federal court, counsel must recognize that each federal district may have different pleading and procedural rules that must be followed.